Catasauqua Church Having Change In Pulpit Tomorrow Religion

The Rev. Bruce D. MacLaughlin will be installed at 4 p.m. tomorrow as pastor of Holy Trinity Memorial Lutheran Church, 4th and Pine streets, Catasauqua, during a Eucharist service.

The Rev. Dr. Harold S. Weiss, bishop of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Rev. Donald W. Hayn, dean of the Northampton Mission District, will preside.

MacLaughlin served 6 1/2 years as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Brandonville, Schuylkill County, and St. John's Lutheran Church, Ringtown, Berks County.

MacLaughlin is a graduate of Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, with a bachelor's degree in business administration/marketing and management, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary (formerly Hamma School of Theology and Lutheran Theological Seminary), Columbus, Ohio, with a master of divinity degree. He was ordained in 1981.

In addition to his pastoral ministry, he has served as chaplain at Bear Creek Camp, Luzerne County, and as a member of the program committee for Bear Creek Camp and coordinator of the 1987 synod Junior High Youth Event. Recently he was appointed to the board of directors of Bear Creek Camp.

He and his wife, the former Dorothea A. Frese, have three children, B. Douglas, Jennifer Ann and Matthew Scott. They reside in Whitehall Township.